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Principal Product Manager

Microsoft
$139,900.00 - $274,800.00 / yr
United States, Washington, Redmond
Jan 25, 2026
Overview Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft Copilot for Security empowers defenders to detect hidden patterns, harden defenses, and respond to incidents faster with generative AI. The same platform also empowers IT Admins and Data Security admins to proactively protect the assets. While Generative AI has created a new set of possibilities, it's also created a new set of challenges: hallucination, prompt injection, rapidly changing industry trends. Our team is at the forefront of both the opportunities and the challenges for Microsoft Security. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager for Security Copilot to execute strategic priorities, drive alignment across internal and external stakeholders, and design/define critical capabilities. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and empowering teams to maximize productivity. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities As a Principal Product Manager, you'll define strategy and deliver secure, scalable AI experiences that protect customers globally. You'll lead innovation in agentic systems and Responsible AI, shaping the next generation of security solutions. Other REsponsibilities include: Understand security customers and markets Develop strategy and build buy-in from cross-functional teams into your ideas Translate strategic plans into work involving cross-team collaboration. Develop clear requirements and work closely with the software engineering team to meet product goals. Lead the execution of strategic initiatives you've championed. Define product vision and roadmap for agentic AI security workflows. Drive cross-functional alignment and secure buy-in for strategic initiatives. Author clear requirements and partner with engineering to deliver resilient AI capabilities. Champion Responsible AI principles and implement safety guardrails. Establish evaluation frameworks for reliability, performance, and ethical compliance. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. Other Requirements Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter Additional or preferred qualifications Bachelor's Degree AND 12+ years experience in product/service/program management or software development OR equivalent experience. 4+ years experience taking a product, feature, or experience to market (e.g., design, addressing product market fit, and launch, internal tool/framework). 6+ years experience improving product metrics for a product, feature, or experience in a market (e.g., growing customer base, expanding customer usage, avoiding customer churn). 6+ years experience disrupting a market for a product, feature, or experience (e.g., competitive disruption, taking the place of an established competing product). #MSFT Security #SCEM #MSFTSecurity #GenAI #SecurityCopilot #Security #Agents Product Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.